Nice to know ‘The Sun’ respects copyright

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• Peter says:

  24 January 2011 at 11:47 am

  But not so clear on privacy laws?

  Tabloids drawn into hacking crisis

  Britain’s tabloid newspapers are facing a major crisis after being drawn into the News of the World hacking scandal.

  Twenty-four hours after Andy Coulson, the British Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications chief and former News of the World editor, was forced to resign, a lawyer confirmed other newspapers were facing legal claims. …

  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10701604

• Peter says:

  27 January 2011 at 4:22 pm

  Oops.
  

  Phone hacking scandal deepens, editor fired

  Rupert Murdoch’s News International yesterday conceded that the phone hacking scandal went to the heart of Britain’s top-selling newspaper, announcing that it had sacked a senior editor at the News of the World and passed “significant new information” to police, including emails which could implicate other executives.

  Scotland Yard immediately announced a new investigation into the damaging allegations, which have seen NOTW journalists accused of systematically accessing the voicemails of public figures and sparked criticism of police for their failure to question key figures at the newspaper, including the former editor Andy Coulson, during four years of supposed inquiries. Mr Coulson resigned as David Cameron’s spokesman on Friday because of the clamour surrounding the hacking claims. In a move that will be seen as the start of a new bid by News International to try to draw a line under the affair, the company said it had dismissed Ian Edmondson, the paper’s assistant editor (news) and part of Mr Coulson’s inner circle, who was suspended in December after he was linked to the activities of Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective jailed for hacking the phones of Prince William’s aides.

  Sources said a trawl of emails dating back nearly six years had found a dossier of “highly damaging evidence” which has been passed to the Yard. The Independent understands that detectives will scrutinise the information from thousands of messages found on the machine for any indication that Mr Edmondson or other figures at the newspaper were responsible for instructing Mr Mulcaire to target the phones of celebrities and politicians prior to 2006.

  The Independent via NZ Herald Thursday, 27 January 2011